Looking for a fresh start to the Series 7 exam 2025 is a new year to take a new approach. Especially, if your studying hasn’t worked in the past. In today’s post, we provide some tips on how to get over this difficult exam.
Series 7 Exam 2025: New Year New Approach
From our experience at Professional Exam Tutoring, studying for the Series 7 Exam is best done systematically.
To lay it out in quick bullet points:
- Read the textbook
- Take a full practice exam
- Review your practice exam
- Identify and do practice questions on highly weighted exam sections that are weak from your most recent practice exam
- Take another full practice exam
- Rinse and repeat steps 2, 3, and 4
This method has been found to work on the widest range of students in all of our years tutoring. Whether you are Ivy League educated, or didn’t make it to college at all, these steps, help weight the odds in your favor.
Another major advantage is that it provides you with a customized structure. You will know what to do day in and day out of your studying according to your needs.
If you have not tried something like this, we highly suggest you take this approach. Give yourself a needed break during the holidays if you are between exam exams, and try it in the new year.
What’s New with the Series 7 Exam 2025?
Although we have no insight into what FINRA is likely to update on the exam, we believe there are some recent trends to watch. For instance, although convertible bonds are not a large part of the exam, you may see a few more than has been seen in the past. That is to say, a small handful, and not likely more than four or five questions.
What is not likely to change is the number of Options questions. Options heavy exams are still likely to show up, in our view. And even when presented with an Options-light exam, we would still expect more than 10 options questions.
Some other areas to make sure you understand fully would be municipal securities, order types, margin, and investment companies. It may also be worth your while to know enough about new issues. Specifically, the rules around issuing municipal bonds and other types of securities in the primary market.
Overall, the Series 7 exam in 2025 is likely to be quite similar to the recent past. We recommend you take a very systematic approach to studying, and feel free to reach out if you need any help. Good luck!